Just keep telling yourself, you need the money for the 11 X 14 Deardorff. :)

Rich

uraniumnitrate

12-03-2006, 07:30 AM

I red the text and one little question arises! Who is the guy who wouldn’t be satisfied with this lens in his hand? Hey! No shutter???? I’m just kidding! :D

jimgalli

12-03-2006, 10:48 AM

Hi Jim,

Just keep telling yourself, you need the money for the 11 X 14 Deardorff. :)

Rich

That's why I'm sitting on my hands :D Crap, I just checked and it's still there.

Dan Fromm

12-03-2006, 11:20 AM

Jim, surely you have credit left ...

More seriously, why do you want the thing? Braggin' rights? Special application? General appeal? Lack of an anvil to drop on your foot?

Cheers,

Dan

jimgalli

12-03-2006, 11:29 AM

90 lppm on an 11X14 is attractive to me. Mostly it's those velvet lined leather caps with the word Schneider pressed in gold that I can't resist.

Dan Fromm

12-03-2006, 11:53 AM

Jim, I didn't know you printed 10'x12'. Are you the Clyde Butcher of the eastern Sierras?

Cheers,

Dan

jimgalli

12-03-2006, 11:57 AM

Jim, I didn't know you printed 10'x12'. Are you the Clyde Butcher of the eastern Sierras?

Cheers,

Dan

No, but I've been called a print butcher before.

Dan Fromm

12-03-2006, 12:07 PM

Well, if you're not going to print that large the lens will be wasted on you. Which isn't a good reason to walk away from it, but is a reason.

Hugo Zhang

01-06-2007, 01:29 PM

Just received it today. It's massive, 7" tall and 5 1/4" wide. I thought my 42cm Heliar was big. My current Kodak 2D won't be able to handle it because it needs a 7" board. I might have to look for a bigger and stronger studio camera to make this lens comfortable. Otherwise it will be a display piece. My Christmas gift to myself on an impulse. Absolutely useless and beautiful object at this moment.

Colin Graham

01-06-2007, 05:39 PM

Well, at least you waited the seller out a bit. You got it for a hair over half the price of when he first listed it.

David A. Goldfarb

01-06-2007, 08:51 PM

Thankfully, I don't have a camera that takes larger than Sinar-sized lensboards, so that keeps things under control.

jimgalli

01-06-2007, 09:02 PM

Hugo, I have a giant Ansco potrait studio camera in kit form with what I believe is a brand new bellows if you're interested. It takes 9X9 inch lens boards. Made to hold up massive lenses. Contact me if you're interested. When completed it would look almost identical to the Kodak 9a in the picture attached. No stand.

MichaelBriggs

01-06-2007, 09:04 PM

For the future when the eBay auction link no longer functions, the lens is labeled "Aero-Xenotar 1:4.5/460". The seller says that it is a unused protoype. From the photos, the front element is deeply recessed in the barrel, so the coverage probably isn't ULF. The barrel is going to limit the angle of acceptance of light rays. So I guess it was designed as a long & fast lens for merely LF aerial photography.

Hugo Zhang

01-07-2007, 12:32 AM

Jim,

What size is that studio camera with 9" board? I have 8x10" portrait camera already, so I am thinking of a 11x14 or 14x17 for this lens just for portraiture. I have acquired so many barrel lenses lately, maybe it's an addiction, let me term it JG addiction.:)

Michael,

I will use this lens for portrait if I ever use it. Its coverage will probably be OK for that purpose. But thanks for the reminder.

jimgalli

01-07-2007, 12:43 AM

Hugo, it's just a wee 8X10 and I only have a diminutive 5X7 back for it. jg